Code Search Engines
Sample code can save hours or days. Some search engines for finding code.
- Black Duck Koders: With a very nice interface Koders is a very popular code search engine.
- byteMyCode: byteMyCode focuses on code snippets and code sharing. Easy to upload and share samples.
- Codase: In beta and limited to C, C++ and Java (just added). One benefit of the limited (and syntactically similar) languages is that the search interface is specific to these languages with search options such as Method Call, Method Definition, Class Definition, Class Field, Variable, Field Reference and Free Text.
- Codefetch: A very spartan search interface based on expressions (help page available). Many languages supported.
- DZone snippets: DZone touts itself as "a public source code repository". Their focus is on code sharing.
- Google Project Hosting: Unfortunately Google Code Search has been shut down but Google Project Hosting has quite a bit of useful code for their products.
- Krugle: In addition to code searches, Krugle also provides for searches of projects and tech pages as well. Great filter options and a large number of languages supported.
- Merobase - Software Component Finder: Merobase is a code, component and service search engine.
- Snipplr: A code sharing repository for snippets. This website includes an interface for TextMate which, presumably, includes E-TextEditor. Largely oriented to Web and Mac-centric snippits.
- UCodit: A strong newcomer to code searching.
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